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SoIoT: Toward A User-Centric IoT-Based Service Framework
An emerging issue in urban computing environments is the seamless selection, composition, and delivery of user-centric services that run over what is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). This challenge is about enabling services actuated by IoT ...
Things of Interest Recommendation by Leveraging Heterogeneous Relations in the Internet of Things
The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) bridges the gap between the physical and the digital worlds, which enables a deeper understanding of user preferences and behaviors. The rich interactions and relations between users and things call for effective ...
Argumentation Mining: State of the Art and Emerging Trends
Argumentation mining aims at automatically extracting structured arguments from unstructured textual documents. It has recently become a hot topic also due to its potential in processing information originating from the Web, and in particular from ...
A Scalable Framework for Provisioning Large-Scale IoT Deployments
Internet of Things (IoT) devices are usually considered external application dependencies that only provide data or process and execute simple instructions. The recent emergence of IoT devices with embedded execution environments allows practitioners to ...
Unsupervised Extraction of Popular Product Attributes from E-Commerce Web Sites by Considering Customer Reviews
We develop an unsupervised learning framework for extracting popular product attributes from product description pages originated from different E-commerce Web sites. Unlike existing information extraction methods that do not consider the popularity of ...
Multiobjective Optimization for Brokering of Multicloud Service Composition
The choice of cloud providers whose offers best fit the requirements of a particular application is a complex issue due to the heterogeneity of the services in terms of resources, costs, technology, and service levels that providers ensure. This article ...
Negotiating Premium Peering Prices: A Quantitative Model with Applications
We have developed a novel methodology for deriving bandwidth prices for premium direct peering between Access ISPs (A-ISPs) and Content and Service Providers (CSPs) that want to deliver content and services in premium quality. Our methodology ...